The Association for Comparative Economic Studies was pleased to offer its first Continuing Education Series on January 6 and January 7, 2021. Below are documents from this online conference:

• Conference Program

• Session 1 slides (Noam Yuchtman): Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Closing Remarks.

• Session 2 slides (Georgy Egorov): Dynamics of Institutions, Nondemocracies.

  • Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence

• Session 2 slides (Konstantin Sonin): Political Economics: Protests and Revolutions, Political Economics: Propaganda and Media Freedom.

  • Working paper: The Political Economics of Non-Democracy